We studied from the textbook organizational strategies for composing the rhetorical analysis essay, including how to earn sophistication points on the exam.. We noted a strategy that simply follows the passage paragraph by paragraph, and a strategy that identifies in each paragraph a rhetorical choice followed by examples and commentary, Based on last night's reading, we discussed and critiqued a sample student essay. After Matthew identified the thesis in the student essay, we examined if each paragraph's topic sentence supported the thesis, if the evidence(quotes) were relevant, and if the conclusion did more than just summarize the thesis. Further, I noted the poor word choice that misnamed a number of the rhetorical devices . Last, we studied examples of a sophisticated thesis statement that focused on the speaker's rhetorical situation.